The Host Collective
Event organizers pool their guest lists, privately, and each gets the right new people for their next event. Nobody sees anyone else's list. Free.
Why this exists
You built your guest list one event at a time, and it reaches only the people already on it. The people you want next are on other hosts' lists, and today the only way to reach them is a cohost who walks away with your whole list.
The Host Collective is a pool. Each host adds their guest list after an event, nobody opens anyone else's, and software learns who shows up to rooms like yours. Before your next event you get the people worth inviting, with one line on why they fit, and you invite them yourself. One guest you add earns one person you can invite.
It's free because alkemy makes money when hosts use alkemy for their own research, never from the pool. It's new: the first hosts are SF organizers, and until the pool fills, most suggestions come from the speakers and hosts of other SF events.
How it works
One cycle per event, from your first call to your next guest list.
- Tell us who you want in the room
- We give you the people worth inviting
- You invite the ones you want
- After the event, add your guest list and check-ins
Once your check-ins are in, suggestions start to favor people who actually show up.
Our rules
We, the hosts in the Host Collective, built our guest lists one event at a time and want new people in our rooms without handing those lists to anyone. So we pool them under these ten rules, written by hosts, for hosts.
Your list stays yours.
No other host ever sees it. A deterministic algorithm runs the matching, and nobody at alkemy opens your file. You choose which events to share.
Nothing traces back.
A suggestion is a name, a public profile and a reason. It never carries contact details from another host's list, and it never says which event a person came from.
Never for alkemy's own use.
alkemy never uses your guest list for its own outreach or targeting, and alkemy doesn't run events.
Software suggests, you decide.
You choose whom to invite, and every invitation comes from you, in your own words.
Give one, get one.
Each unique guest you add earns one suggestion, good for 30 days. Founding hosts get 25 for their first event up front.
Nobody gets swamped.
A person is suggested to at most 3 hosts a month.
For your invites only.
Suggestions are for inviting people to your events, not for sales lists or outreach tools. Misusing them ends your membership.
You can't buy your way in.
Suggestions are never sold. You join by hosting an SF event and adding its list, or when a host vouches for you.
Leave anytime.
Raw files are deleted after processing, everything is deleted within 30 days of leaving, and any guest can ask to be removed.
Hosts shape the rules.
We're a collective of event organizers, by event organizers. If you need a change, tell us and we'll do our best to accommodate it.
PricingCompletely free
New guests usually cost you your list. A cohost sees all of it, and a sponsor asks for it. Here the price is one thing: your own guest list, added privately after each event.
What you get:
- People worth inviting to each event, each with a reason and a way to reach them
- Your own private alkemy workspace for your guest lists
- A review after each event: who was suggested, invited, registered, and showed up
- A 15-minute live setup with Nitesh, on a call or at your office
The Host Collective
$0
The pool makes alkemy $0. alkemy makes money when hosts choose to use alkemy, for example paying for credits to research their own guests. You can always say no 🙃
Credits never buy names from the pool.
Talk to FounderQuestions hosts ask
Hosts are named only with their permission, and on your call Nitesh walks you through who's in. Suggestions only come from lists that match the kind of person you ask for, so a founder meetup's list never reaches a room of CFOs.
Your list lives in your own alkemy workspace, where no other host can see it. A deterministic algorithm runs the matching, and nobody at alkemy opens your file. Raw files are deleted after processing, everything is deleted within 30 days of leaving, and alkemy never uses your list for its own outreach or targeting.
alkemy doesn't run events, and never uses your list for its own outreach. The pool only works while hosts trust it: the day alkemy used a list for itself, every host would leave, and so would alkemy's reason to run it. If you ever see that, leave, and everything is deleted within 30 days.
No. Each list stays in its host's own workspace. Matching compares lists as code and hands back names and public profiles. No combined list exists that anyone can open or export.
No. They opted in to the host whose event they went to. What you get is a name and a public profile, the same as a speaker list, and you reach out the way you would to anyone you met at a conference: your own words, your own name. Nobody is emailed on your behalf, and anyone can ask to be removed by writing to founders@alkemyos.com.
Your guest export from Luma or Partiful after each event: names, emails, LinkedIn where you have it, and check-ins. Nothing before your event, and only for the events you choose. A private dinner series can stay private.
One suggestion for each unique guest you add, good for 30 days, and 25 up front for your first event as a founding host. Each suggestion is a name, a public profile, a reason they fit and a way to reach them. Never another host's contact details, and no enrichment of your own guests unless you ask alkemy for it.
You say which kind of person you want (title, company stage, topic) and you only get people who match. Give one, get one counts unique guests, not rows, so a padded list earns nothing. And a person is suggested to at most 3 hosts a month, so the same few people don't get handed to everyone.
No. A person is suggested to at most 3 hosts a month, and suggestions are for event invitations only, not for sales lists or outreach tools. Breaking that rule ends a membership.
No. Suggestions can't be bought. Credits pay for alkemy research on public profiles and on your own guests, never for names from the pool.
Yes, it works with both Partiful and Luma.
The SF Bay Area first. Other cities open as organizers there join.
Not yet through the pool. You join by adding the list from an SF event you hosted, or when a host vouches for you. For a first event, alkemy can research public profiles for you on credits. Ask on the call.
A 15-minute setup with Nitesh, live, on a call or at your office. You set up your workspace and add your last list together, and your first suggestions arrive within a day. Nothing happens off a link.
Nitesh Pant, co-founder of alkemy, in San Francisco. alkemy researches companies and people for business development teams and drafts the first message. The Host Collective runs on alkemy's research tools.
Bring the right new people to your next event
Or write to founders@alkemyos.com with your next event's date and link.